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Taranaki

1. (personal noun) tribal group to the west of Mount Egmont (Taranaki) and south of New Plymouth.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 89;)


2. (location) Mount Egmont.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 103;)


3. (location) the region in the west of the North Island in the vicinity of Mount Taranaki.

Ko ngā kupu o te waiata, ko ngā whakamārama hoki he mea kohikohi mai e ia i ngā iwi o te rohe o Taranaki, i a Ngā Rauru, i a Ngāti Ruanui (M 2006:418). / He collected the words of the song and the explanations from the tribes of the Taranaki district, from the Ngā Rauru and Ngāti Ruanui tribes.

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